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Transparency Scarf
Via hyperallergic.com
Feb 15
Before Wikileaks blew up to become a household name, Metahaven created an identity for the group. Quickly events prompted a new focus—on fundraising for legal battles. Enter a Metahaven-designed Wikileaks scarf that “talks about opacity and transparency.”
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Valentine’s Alternatives
Via sva.edu
Feb 14
Handsome devils, a bleeding-heart message in felt, fake wood type: School of the Visual Arts design staffers Steven Heller, Debbie Millman, Marshall Arisman, and others offer their alternatives to the cutesy pink Valentine.
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Unorginality Examined
Via theatlantic.com
Feb 13
Copying is both timeless and, given the nature of the Internet, particularly contemporary, writes Steven Heller. Which is why New York gallery P!, run by Project Projects’ Prem Krishnamurthy, is tackling the topic during a six-month series.
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New Punctuation
Via designobserver.com
Feb 12
Rob Walker looks at the ElRay, a new punctuation mark for our enthusiastic social-media era. Proposed by photographer Ellen Susan, it would reside “in the emotional range between the just-the-facts period and the whoop-to-do excitability of the exclamation point.”
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Designer Coloring Book
Via juxtapoz.com
Feb 6
For its new book series, Apartamento magazine invited artists and designers to create coloring pages for kids. The first three limited-edition books are by Reg Mombassa, Matt Leines, and Geoff McFetridge (who speaks at Insights 2013 next month).
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Origin of Aeron
Via fastcodesign.com
Feb 6
Now a design icon, the Aeron chair had troubled beginnings: conceived of by Don Chadwick and Minnesota’s Bill Stumpf as ergonomic seating for the elderly, the futuristic design was initially a tough sell for manufacturer Herman Miller.
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Man of the People
Via architectmagazine.com
Jan 23
At his funeral last month, Oscar Niemeyer’s coffin was flanked by flowers from Raul and Fidel Castro. But how did the famed architect’s leftist values—he was a longtime Communist Party member—come through in his work for Brazil’s military and financial elites?
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Houseprinting
Via dezeen.com
Jan 21
Universe Architecture’s Landscape House aims to be the first 3D printed building in the world. With a looping design reminiscent of a Möbius strip, it’ll be created using a giant D-Shape printer.
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Passings: Balthazar Korab
Via architizer.com
Jan 17
Balthazar Korab, an architect and winner of an AIA Medal for Architectural Photography, has passed away at age 86. Subject of the 2012 book Balthazar Korab: Architect of Photography, he served as Saarinen’s in-house photographer.